Cole Caufield and Kaiden Guhle scored, and Jake Allen made 26 saves for Montreal, which did not win a preseason game (0-6-2).
Caufield opened the scoring with a power-play goal from the left face-off circle to give the Canadiens a 1-0 lead at 8:47 of the first period.
Brassard, on a professional tryout contract with the Senators, tied it 1-1 at 3:48 of the second period by poking in a rebound for his first goal in four preseason games.
Brassard had an assist on Batherson’s game-winner.
Sabourin scored at 15:17 to put Ottawa ahead 2-1, beating Allen after initially losing his balance.
Guhle tied it 2-2 at 18:40.
Blues 6, Blackhawks 0: Jordan Binnington made 24 saves for the St. Louis Blues in a 6-0 win against the Chicago Blackhawks at Enterprise Center in St. Louis.
Ivan Barbashev scored twice, and Jordan Kyrou had a goal and an assist for the Blues, who finished the preseason 6-2-0. Brayden Schenn, Robert Bortuzzo and Jake Neighbours each had two assists.
Petr Mrazek allowed six goals on 25 shots for the Blackhawks in their preseason finale (1-5-0).
The Blues scored three goals in 2:10 during the first period. Barbashev made it 1-0 at 9:48, deflecting a slap shot from Bortuzzo. Nikita Alexandrov scored 23 seconds later for a 2-0 lead at 10:11, tipping a shot from Bortuzzo.
Kyrou pushed it to 3-0 at 11:58 after a pass from Schenn.
Robert Thomas scored a power-play goal 2:59 into the second period for a 4-0 lead.
Ryan O’Reilly made it 5-0 at 10:19, and Barbashev scored again at 17:05 for the 6-0 final.
Binnington made nine saves in the third period.
Lightning 5, Panthers 2:Vladislav Namestnikov scored a natural hat trick and had an assist for the Tampa Bay Lightning in a 5-2 win against the Florida Panthers at Amalie Arena in Tampa.
Namestnikov, who signed a one-year, $2.5 million contract with Tampa Bay on July 13, finished the preseason with six points (five goals, one assist).
Nikita Kucherov and Brayden Point each had a goal and an assist, Corey Perry had three assists, and Andrei Vasilevskiy made 27 saves for the Lightning, who won their final game of the preseason (1-4-0).
Rudolfs Balcers scored, and Spencer Knight made 26 saves for the Panthers, who finished the preseason 2-4-0.
Kucherov scored his first goal of the preseason, a power-play goal from the right face-off circle, at 3:51 of the first period to give Tampa Bay a 1-0 lead.
Balcers tied it 1-1 at 5:15 with a slap shot from the top of the right circle.
Namestnikov made it 2-1 with a one-timer from the bottom of the right circle at 12:15, then extended it to 3-1 by banging in a cross-crease pass from Perry on a 5-on-3 at 19:14.
He completed the hat trick at 7:30 of the second period off a pass from Ross Colton.
Aleksi Heponiemi came out of the right corner and scored short-side to cut it to 4-2 at 8:45, but Point tapped in his first goal of the preseason at 4:56 of the third period for the 5-2 final.
Kings 6, Ducks 3: Arthur Kaliyev had a goal and two assists to help the Los Angeles Kings to a 6-3 win against the Anaheim Ducks at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.
Sean Durzi and Carl Grundstrom each had a goal and an assist for Los Angeles, which ended its preseason 3-3-1. Jonathan Quick made 23 saves.
Troy Terry had a goal and an assist for Anaheim in its preseason finale (4-3-0).
John Gibson made 16 saves on 19 shots in the first period before leaving the game because of an upper-body injury. Anthony Stolarz made 14 saves in relief.
Gabriel Vilardi scored a power-play goal 2:32 into the first period to give the Kings a 1-0 lead, and Kaliyev made it 2-0 at 11:08 with a wrist shot from the top of the slot.
Grundstrom scored from the top of the left circle at 14:17 for a 3-0 lead.
The Ducks scored three straight goals in the second period to tie it. Mason McTavish made it 3-1 at 3:57, Max Jones scored on a 2-on-1 with Pavol Regenda at 10:37 to cut it to 3-2 and Terry tied it 3-3 with a power-play goal at 14:45.
Durzi gave Los Angeles a 4-3 lead with a bouncing wrist shot from the blue line at 17:22.
Phillip Danault scored from inside the crease at 9:47 of the third period to make it 5-3, and Kevin Fiala scored on a one-timer in front at 12:24 for the 6-3 final.
Wild 5, Stars 1:Kirill Kaprizov scored twice and had an assist for the Minnesota Wild in a 5-1 win against the Dallas Stars at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Mats Zuccarello had a goal and two assists, Marco Rossi got his seventh assist, and Marc-Andre Fleury made 22 saves for the Wild in their preseason finale (6-1-0).
Joe Pavelski scored for the Stars, who finished the preseason 2-5-0. Jake Oettinger allowed four goals on 20 shots over the first two periods, and Scott Wedgewood made seven saves in the third period.
Joel Eriksson Ek gave Minnesota a 1-0 lead at 3:57 of the first period, and Kaprizov scored on the power play at 8:49 to make it 2-0.
Brandon Duhaime extended the lead to 3-0 at 3:19 of the second period, but Pavelski cut it to 3-1 at 5:22.
Zuccarello restored the Wild’s three-goal lead at 11:48 to make it 4-1.
Kaprizov scored again on the power play at 14:15 of the third for the 5-1 final.
Maple Leafs 5, Red Wings 1:Auston Matthews and William Nylander each scored two goals for the Toronto Maple Leafs in a 5-1 win against the Detroit Red Wings at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto.
Morgan Rielly and Mitchell Marner each had three assists, Alexander Kerfoot had two assists, and Matt Murray made 18 saves for the Maple Leafs, who finished the preseason 5-2-0.
Pius Suter scored, and Jussi Olkinuora made 13 saves on 15 shots in 31:55 for the Red Wings, who finished 3-5-0. Victor Brattstrom made eight saves in relief.
Suter gave Detroit a 1-0 lead with a shot that went bar down from the right face-off circle at 11:33 of the first period.
Nylander tied it 1-1 at 15:24, also scoring from the right circle. Defenseman Mark Giordano had the primary assist, his fifth of the preseason.
Denis Malgin scored his fourth goal when he split the defense and beat Olkinuora glove side at 11:55 of the second period to give Toronto a 2-1 lead.
The Maple Leafs scored three power-play goals in the third period. Matthews made it 3-1 with a one-timer from the top of the left circle at 2:12. Nylander extended the lead to 4-1 at 7:02, picking up a loose puck in the right circle for his fourth goal of the preseason, and Matthews scored his second goal of the game from the high slot at 13:49 for the 5-1 final.
Toronto defenseman Jake Muzzin and forward Pierre Engvall each played his first game of the preseason.
Devils 5 Bruins 3:Jack Hughes and Alexander Holtz each had a goal and an assist for the New Jersey Devils in a 5-3 win against the Boston Bruins at TD Garden in Boston.
Mackenzie Blackwood made 15 saves on 16 shots before Vitek Vanecek entered halfway through to make 12 saves for New Jersey, which finished the preseason 5-2-0.
Linus Ullmark made 22 saves for Boston, which went 3-3-0.
Holtz scored from the slot after a drop pass from Hughes at 18:10 of the first period to give the Devils a 1-0 lead.
David Pastrnak scored for the Bruins on a shot from the left circle at 7:59 of the second period to tie it 1-1, but Dawson Mercer tipped in a Dougie Hamilton shot at 11:44 to give New Jersey a 2-1 lead.
Hughes scored in front after a pass from Holtz from behind the net 1:30 into the third period to make it 3-1 Devils, and Yegor Sharangovich scored from the right circle after a turnover at 2:59 to make it 4-1.
Jakub Lauko scored at 14:15 to pull the Bruins within 4-2, and Patrice Bergeron scored his first of the preseason at 17:14 to make it 4-3.
Tomas Tatar scored into the empty net with 18 seconds left for the 5-3 final.
Capitals 4, Blue Jackets 3 (OT):Dylan Strome scored 39 seconds into overtime to give the Washington Capitals a 4-3 win against the Columbus Blue Jackets at Capital One Arena in Washington.
Strome scored on a redirection at the left post off a pass from Connor Brown.
John Carlson had three assists, and Darcy Kuemper made 36 saves for Washington in its preseason finale (4-1-1).
Adam Boqvist had two assists, and Elvis Merzlikins made 28 saves for Columbus, which finished 4-3-1.
Anthony Mantha gave the Capitals a 1-0 lead with a redirection in front off a shot by Martin Fehervary at 9:56 of the first period.
Patrik Laine tied it 1-1 at 10:37, sweeping in a shot from between the circles, before Yegor Chinakhov gave the Blue Jackets a 2-1 lead on the power play at 14:58, his sixth goal of the preseason.
Alex Ovechkin‘s power-play goal at 19:47 tied it 2-2.
Sean Kuraly put Columbus ahead 3-2 at 3:25 of the second period, but Nic Dowd tied it 3-3 at 8:34.
Islanders 3, Rangers 1:Ilya Sorokin made 28 saves for the New York Islanders in a 3-1 win against the New York Rangers at UBS Arena in Elmont, New York.
Kieffer Bellows and Mathew Barzal scored, and Josh Bailey had two assists for the Islanders in their preseason finale (4-2-0).
Kaapo Kakko scored for the Rangers, who finished 2-3-1. Igor Shesterkin made 13 saves.
Bellows finished a pass from Sebastian Aho at 9:06 of the first period to give the Islanders a 1-0 lead.
Barzal made it 2-0 with a wrist shot from the left circle at 16:16.
Sorokin made 12 saves in the second period to preserve the two-goal lead.
Zach Parise scored at 4:28 of the third period to make it 3-0.
Kakko cut it to 3-1 with his third goal of the preseason at 6:50.
Golden Knights 5, Coyotes 1: Nicolas Roy had a goal and an assist for the Vegas Golden Knights in a 5-1 win against the Arizona Coyotes at Idaho Central Arena in Boise, Idaho.
Reilly Smith had two assists for Vegas, which ended its preseason 4-2-1. Logan Thompson allowed one goal on 15 shots, and Adin Hill made nine saves.
Travis Boyd scored for Arizona, which finished 0-6-1 in the preseason. Jon Gillies made 21 saves.
Chandler Stephenson gave the Golden Knights a 1-0 lead with a power-play goal at 5:55 of the first period.
Roy made it 2-0 at 7:47, and Jonathan Marchessault pushed it to 3-0 at 15:11 before Boyd cut it to 3-1 at 18:12.
Jack Eichel gave the Golden Knights a 4-1 lead at 2:12 of the third period on a power play when the puck deflected off his skate on a clearing pass from behind the net by Coyotes defenseman J.J. Moser.
Alex Pietrangelo scored on a one-timer at 11:47 for the 5-1 final.
VANCOUVER – As the Major League Soccer season ticks down, Vanni Sartini wants his Vancouver Whitecaps to make a declaration — the team is ready to compete.
“The time of hiding ourselves, I think it’s over,” the coach said after the ‘Caps earned a 2-0 victory over the San Jose Earthquakes on Saturday.
“We need to really say that we are here to try to be at the ball until the end and trying to shoot for the highest position. That doesn’t mean that we’re going to make it, but we have the quality to do it.”
With seven games left on their regular-season schedule, the ‘Caps (13-8-6) sit in fifth spot in the congested Western Conference, just two points out of fourth.
Saturday’s loss officially eliminated the last-place Earthquakes (5-21-2) from post-season action.
Vancouver has been on a hot streak since returning from the Leagues Cup break and is unbeaten (3-0-1) in its last four outings across all competitions. The team has not allowed a goal in those matches.
“It’s the fact that we play really well,” Sartini said of the clean sheets. “We have the ball a lot, we finish our attack most of the time in their box. So it’s really hard for the other team to attack us. And then when they attack us, in the rare times that they arrive in the final third, we’re very solid.”
Recent additions have bolstered the team’s ranks, including the club’s newest designated player, Stuart Armstrong. The 32-year-old Scottish midfielder scored his first MLS goal Saturday.
Three minutes after coming on as a substitute for Alessandro Schopf, Armstrong gave Vancouver a two-goal cushion in the 87th minute.
Midfielder Pedro Vite dished a short pass to ‘Caps captain Ryan Gauld, who tapped it toward Armstrong. The former Southampton FC player then blasted a shot into the top of the net for his first strike in a Whitecaps’ jersey.
He was mobbed by teammates in the corner of the field.
“I think everyone was happy. Also for the first goal, but also that it was an important three points,” said Armstrong, who signed with the ‘Caps on Sept. 3.
“It kind of felt a little bit like last week, when we had a lot of chances and we didn’t get the three points. So today, I think everyone was just relieved to have that two-goal cushion.”
Vancouver was the dominant team from the outset Saturday and did not relent, outshooting the visitors 19-5 and controlling 54.1 per cent of possession.
Fafa Picault also found the back of the net for Vancouver, while Gauld contributed a pair of assists.
Whitecaps goalkeeper Yohei Takaoka stopped both shots he faced to collect his seventh clean sheet of the year, while Daniel made nine saves for the Quakes.
Gauld and Picault teamed up in the 22nd minute when Gauld curled a cross in and the Haitian striker headed it down toward the net, only to see Daniel catch a piece of the shot with his forearm and redirect it out of harm’s way.
The duo connected again in the 35th minute on a Vancouver corner. Gauld swung a ball in and Picault jumped up from the pack to send a glancing header in past Daniel for his ninth MLS goal of the season.
San Jose briefly appeared to level the score in the 68th minute when an unmarked Ousseni Bouda collected the ball, froze Takaoka and tapped a shot into the Vancouver net. An official quickly raised the offside flag and waved off the tally.
Daniel kept San Jose’s deficit to a single goal with a pair of solid stops in the 82nd minute.
First, the Brazilian ‘keeper dove sideways on his line to tip away a bomb from Alessandro Schopf. He was tested again on the ensuing corner and jumped up to send a header from Picault over the crossbar.
“I think we created a lot of chances again,” Gauld said.
“We probably should have put the game out of their reach sooner. But we’d be more worried if we weren’t creating the chances. Three clean sheets in a row in the league, I think it’s a big thing for us. And it gives us a good platform to go forward.”
NOTES
Vancouver played without leading scorer Brian White for a third consecutive game as the American striker works his way back from a concussion. … Gauld’s second assist marked his 15th goal contribution (six goals, nine assists) in his last 15 Whitecaps games across all competitions. … An announced crowd of 21,309 took in the game at B.C. Place.
UP NEXT
The Whitecaps kick off a two-game road swing Wednesday against the Houston Dynamo. The Earthquakes host the Seattle Sounders the same night.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 14, 2024.
MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Not good enough. That was Arne Slot’s verdict after his first defeat as Liverpool manager on Saturday.
A shock 1-0 loss at home to Nottingham Forest in the English Premier League ended Slot’s perfect record since succeeding Jurgen Klopp at Anfield at the end of last season.
“We had a lot of ball possession but only managed to create three (or) four quite good chances, so that is by far not enough if you have so much ball possession,” said the Dutchman, who suggested his team should not be losing to the likes of Forest.
“If you lose a home game it’s always a setback, especially if you face a team … we never know, maybe they will go all the way to fight for Champions League tickets, but normally this team is not ending up in the top 10, so if you lose a game against them that’s a big disappointment.”
Slot won his first three games in charge, including a memorable 3-0 victory against Manchester United before the international break.
But that run came to an end after Callum Hudson-Odoi struck in the 72nd with a curling effort from the edge of the box and beyond goalkeeper Alisson.
Liverpool’s defeat leaves Manchester City as the only team with a 100% record in the league after a 2-1 win against Brentford kept the defending champion at the top of the table.
United won at Southampton 3-0 to end its two-game losing streak.
Unstoppable Haaland
Erling Haaland moved to 99 goals for City after scoring twice against Brentford.
The Norwegian’s double came after Yoane Wissa fired Brentford ahead with just 22 seconds on the clock.
Haaland scored his 98th and 99th goals in his 103rd City appearance in all competitions. And he was the width of the post away from his third consecutive hat trick after trebles against Ipswich and West Ham.
“He’s been really, really good. Yeah, I would say he’s the best (he’s been), but it’s only four fixtures (this season),” City manager Pep Guardiola said.
Haaland, who has been nominated for the Ballon d’Or, has nine goals in four league games. He has topped the league scoring charts in each of his two seasons at City since joining from Borussia Dortmund in 2022 for $63 million.
Haaland’s first goal after 19 minutes evened the game following Wissa’s opener, which stunned the Etihad Stadium crowd. Haaland turned and swept a shot past goalkeeper Mark Flekken after a slight deflection off Ethan Pinnock.
He was then too strong for Pinnock when shaking off the defender and running through for his second in the 32nd.
He was inches away in the 81st; the shot came back off the post after beating the keeper.
Rashford snaps run
Marcus Rashford snapped a 12-game barren run in front of goal as United beat Southampton.
Rashford doubled United’s lead at Saint Mary’s after Matthijs de Ligt’s scored his first for the club. Substitute Alejandro Garnacho scored a third in the sixth minute of stoppage time.
The win came after back-to-back defeats for United.
Rashford hadn’t scored since March in United’s win over Liverpool in the FA Cup quarterfinals. He curled in a shot from the edge of the area to put Erik ten Hag’s team 2-0 up at Southampton in the 41st minute.
Ten Hag said it could be a turning point for the forward.
“For every striker, they want to be on the scoring list. Once the first is in, more is coming. Like a ketchup bottle, once it’s going, it’s coming more,” he said.
De Ligt, who joined United from Bayern Munich in the offseason, headed in from Bruno Fernandes’ cross in the 35th.
It could have been a different story if Cameron Archer converted a penalty for Southampton in the 33rd. Instead, his effort was saved by goalkeeper Andre Onana.
Newly promoted Southampton was reduced to 10 men when Jack Stephens was sent off in the 79th for a high challenge on Garnacho.
Villa comeback
After three straight defeats to start the league, Everton looked set for its first win when leading Aston Villa 2-0.
Goals from Dwight McNeil and Dominic Calvert-Lewin put Sean Dyche’s team in control until Ollie Watkins struck twice to even the game.
Jhon Duran completed Villa’s comeback and sealed a 3-2 win in the 76th to leave Everton rooted to the bottom of the table and the only top flight team without a point.
Late drama
Jean-Philippe Mateta converted a stoppage time penalty to salvage a 2-2 draw for Crystal Palace against Leicester.
Leicester led 2-0 at Selhurst Park after goals from Jamie Vardy and Stephy Mavididi.
But Mateta sparked Palace’s response with a goal in the 47th, a minute after Mavididi doubled Leicester’s advantage.
Conor Coady fouled Ismaili Sarr in the box right near fulltime and Mateta was cool enough to convert.
West Ham left it even later to salvage a point in a 1-1 draw at Fulham.
Danny Ings struck in the fifth minute of added time after Raul Jimenez’s goal looked like earning Fulham the win.
Brighton boss Fabian Hurzeler, the manager of the month for August, was frustrated as his team was held to 0-0 at home by Ipswich.
CLEVELAND (AP) — Restricted free agent forward Isaac Okoro has agreed to re-sign with the Cleveland Cavaliers on a three-year contract, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press on Saturday.
Okoro’s new deal is worth $38 million, according to the person who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the contract has not been signed or announced by the team.
ESPN.com first reported the agreement, citing Okoro’s representation.
The fifth overall pick in the 2020 NBA draft, Okoro is Cleveland’s best perimeter defender, often drawing the assignment of guarding the opponent’s top scorer. Okoro also has worked to improve his offensive game.
The 23-year-old averaged 9.4 points and 3.0 rebounds in 69 games — 42 starts — last season for the Cavs, who beat Orlando in the opening round of the playoffs before losing to eventual champion Boston.
Okoro shot a career-best 39% on 3-pointers, forcing teams to come out and guard him.
His agreement caps an extraordinarily busy summer for the Cavs that began with coach J.B. Bickerstaff being fired and replaced by Kenny Atkinson. All-Star guard Donovan Mitchell signed a three-year, $150 million extension in July, ending months of speculation that he wanted out of Cleveland.
Also, power forward Evan Mobley signed a five-year, $224 deal and center Jarrett Allen signed a three-year, $91 million extension.
